“Brute Force”, John Ellis, is a 630 page book on the strategy and tactics of WWII. Actually, it deals with a lot more than than that, also very much more on logistics. In my pre-owned copy,

there’s a penned in note by the previous owner remarking “Dullest book on WWII I have ever read”. I think he was looking for a different category of literature.

Page 222 – 226 has a list of radar and countermeasures equipment, with date of inception, and purpose. This seems to me to be a better, more informative list than i have seen elsewhere,

altho i’m hardly an expert; just a beginning reader. I never knew the Stuttgart MW broadcast station had been jammed from England, in an effort to block the station’s coded instructions

to German fighter pilots. Also i read elsewhere that Japan had hoarded something like 6000 fighter planes for the final, expected invasion. ( The number varies from citation to citation, of

course; no one really knows a more precise figure, so it has to be a guess. )  You have seen the photos of fields full of parked Japanese planes supposedly at the ready, before they were

burned at order of the Allied Occupation. This book makes clear that Japan would have been lucky if maybe 20% of them could get into the air.

-Hue Miller